Vocabulary
Blowing out the candle, which her husband had left burning, she slipped her bare feet into a pair of satin mules at the foot of the bed and went out on the porch, where she sat down in the wicker chair and began to rock gently to and fro. It was then past midnight. The cottages were all dark. A single faint light gleamed out from the hallway of the house. There was no sound abroad except the hooting of an old owl in the top of a wateroak, and the everlasting voice of the sea, that was not uplifted at that soft hour. It broke like a mournful lullaby upon the night.
The author’s choice of language in these lines serve to emphasize Mrs. Pontellier’s sense of:
A. isolation
B. boredom
C. disbelief
D. inferiority
What is isolation?
"This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it."
What does the word ardently mean as it is used in the sentence?
A. passionately B. enviously C. miserably D. faithfully
What is passionately?
A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
Directly stated
What is explicit?
The type of texts you read in ELA
What are informational and literary texts?
Such a pitiful beginning it was for their married life; they loved each other so, and they could not have the briefest respite!
What does the word respite mean as it is used in this sentence?
A. a break from everyday worries
B. a desire for love to conquer all
C. a meal that would relax them
D. a dislike of the outside world
What is a break from everyday worries?
"The ship which finally rescued that party deposited its stock of stores on Paulet Island for the use of any later castaways."
What is the meaning of stock as it is used in the sentence?
A. framework B. estimate C. share D. supply
What is supply?
A comparison of two unlike things without the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
To make known
What is convey?
I am found in a literary text and I teach you a lesson
What is a theme?
Over them, relentless and savage, there cracked the lash of want; the morning after the wedding it sought them as they slept, and drove them out before daybreak to work.
How does the figurative language in this sentence help the reader understand the reality the characters face in the excerpt?
A. It reveals the couple’s lack of control over their environment.
B. It portrays the couple’s physical pains from their labors both day and night.
C. It describes the couple’s inability to spend any time with each other?
D. It establishes the couple’s desire to pay back the debt caused by their wedding.
What is it describe the couple’s inability to spend any time with each other?
"I was at first unable to answer these questions, but perpetual attention and time explained to me many appearances which were at first enigmatic."
What does enigmatic mean as it is used in the paragraph?
A. admirable B. constant C. depressing D. mysterious
What is mysterious?
A word that makes the sound it states.
What is onomatopoeia?
The events of a story:(exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)
What is a plot?
I am found in this text and I help students identify this text when I provide facts, numbers, sub-headings/sub-topics
What is an informational text?
The history of the present King of Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct objects the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these states. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
What is the meaning of usurpations as it is used in the paragraph?
A. making objections to laws
B. creating unnecessary regulations
C. taking someone's power or property by force
D. taking someone's ideas and passing them as his own
What is taking someone's power or property by force?
They had opened their hearts, like flowers to the springtime, and the merciless winter had fallen upon them.
How does the author use figurative language in the sentence to contribute to the meaning of the passage?
A. to convey a sense of beauty about the couple’s relationship
B. to emphasize the short time the couple experienced together
C. to illustrate how nature played a part in the couple’s relationship
D. to contrast the expectations of the couple with the reality they experience
What is to contrast the expectations of the couple with the reality they experience?
When an object or item is given human characteristics or qualities.
What is personification?
To add to or help out
What is contribute?
To inform the reader
What is an informational text?
Highbury, the large and populous village, almost amounting to a town, to which Hartfield, in spite of its separate lawn, and shrubberies, and name, did really belong, afforded her no equals. The Woodhouses were first in consequence there.
What can be inferred about the Woodhouses based on the phrase “first in consequence”?
A. The Woodhouses settled Highbury.
B. The Woodhouses governed Highbury.
C. The Woodhouses were the largest family in Highbury.
D. The Woodhouses were the most important family in Highbury.
What is the Woodhouses were the most important family in Highbury.
All that day he stood at his lard machine, rocking unsteadily, his eyes closing in
spite of him; and he all but lost his place even so, for the foreman booted him
twice to waken him.
What does the phrase his eyes closing in spite of him mean?
A. It implies that he is ill.
B. It describes that he is bored at work.
C. It shows his efforts to fight exhaustion.
D. It illustrates how he is pushed at work.
What is it shows his efforts to fight exhaustion?
Refers to words and phrases that are not intended to be understood literally
What is figurative language?
The overall attitude toward them and the audience that is implied in a literary text
What is tone?
To entertain the reader
What is a literary text?